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Chafed Elbows is a 1966 still image film directed by Robert Downey Sr. A manic comic parody underground film made for $12,000, Chafed Elbows was a commercial success. The film was premiered at The Gate Theater in New York City and ran for over one month alongside Scorpio Rising.
Chafed Elbows: Directed by Robert Downey Sr.. With George Morgan, Elsie Downey, Lawrence Wolf, Tom O'Horgan. A welfare recipient marries his mother.
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- Comedy
- Robert Downey Sr.
- 1966
Jan 17, 2023 · Hapless Walter Dinsmore undergoes his annual November breakdown at the 1964 New York World's Fair, has a love affair with his mother, recollects his hysterectomy operation,...
- 58 min
- 1576
- Mourinho335
Visualized largely in still 35 mm photographs, it follows a shiftless downtown Manhattanite having his “annual November breakdown” as he wanders from one odd job to the next, coming across all sorts of sordid types, from a desperate independent filmmaker to a destitute dirty-sock sniffer.
- Walter Dinsmore, All Women's Roles
Roughly halfway through Robert Downey Sr.’s Chafed Elbows, Walter Dinsmore (George Morgan) comes across a man painting a white strip down the middle of an alley. “You have to draw the line somewhere,” the man explains.
- Robert Downey
- George Morgan
"Chafed Elbows" is an unpredictable and amusing movie, definitely belonging to the times it was made and the underground scene where it was formed in warning against the dangers of...
- Comedy
Dec 18, 2020 · A still image film made by Robert Downey Sr. in 1966, "Chafed Elbows" was made for $12,000 and managed to turn in a profit during its month long run at The Gate Theater in New York City; where it played alongside Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising.
